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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedicate -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: A Timely Intervention - Unravelling the Gender/Age/Celebrity Matrix -- 1 Here, There and Nowhere: Ageing, Gender and Celebrity Studies -- 2 Reconfiguring Elinor Glyn: Ageing Female Experience and the Origins of the 'It Girl' -- 4 Moms Mabley and Whoopi Goldberg: Age, Comedy and Celebrity -- 5 'Je joue le rôle d'une petite vieille, rondouillarde et bavarde, qui raconte sa vie…' ['I am playing the role of a little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, who is telling the story of her life…']: The Significance of Agnès Varda's Old Lady Onscreen -- 6 Ageing Grace/Fully: Grace Jones and the Queering of the Diva Myth -- 7 From the Woman Who 'Had It All' to the Tragic, Ageing Spinster: The Shifting Star Persona of Jennifer Aniston -- 8 'Don't Wear Beige - It Might Kill You': The Politics of Ageing and Visibility in Fabulous Fashionistas -- 9 The Best Exotic Graceful Ager: Dame Judi Dench and Older Female Celebrity -- 10 'I'm Not Past My Sell By Date Yet!': Sarah Jane's Adventures in Postfeminist Rejuvenation and the Later-Life Celebrity of Elisabeth Sladen -- 11 'Call the Celebrity': Voicing the Experience of Women and Ageing through the Distinctive Vocal Presence of Vanessa Redgrave -- Index.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Trash Talk: Gender as an Analytic on Reality Television -- PART I. The Pleasures and Perils in Being Seen -- 1 The "Pig," the "Older Woman," and the "Catfight": Gender, Celebrity, and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV -- 2 Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting -- 3 Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand -- 4 When America's Queen of Talk Saved Britain's Duchess of Pork: Finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and Transatlantic Self-Making -- 5 Wrecked: Programming Celesbian Reality -- PART II. Citizenship, Ethnicity, and (Trans)National Ident -- 6 Abject Femininity and Compulsory Masculinity on Jersey Shore -- 7 Supersizing the Family: Nation, Gender, and Recession on Reality TV -- 8 "Get More Action" on Gladiatorial Television: Simulation and Masculinity on Deadliest Warrior -- 9 Jade Goody's Preemptive Hagiography: Neoliberal Citizenship and Reality TV Celebrity -- PART III. Mediated Freak Shows and Cautionary Tales -- 10 "It's Not TV, It's Birth Control": Reality TV and the "Problem" of Teenage Pregnancy -- 11 Intimating Disaster: Choices, Women, and Hoarding Shows -- 12 Freaky Five-Year- Olds and Mental Mommies: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Class in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras -- 13 Legitimate Targets: Reality Television and Large People -- 14 Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre -- Bibliography -- Videography -- Contributors -- Index